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“He started promoting dances himself. People would come from all around and different conjuntos. It's been awhile since we had Mingo. He's one of our pioneers, and he started here. He's like all the rest of them. He never forgot.”

That's easy to understand at Ruben's Place where authenticity and affection intersect.

Saldivar, whose music and flashy persona as “the Dancing Cowboy” earned him a National Endowment of the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, is looking forward to catching up “with people from way back in that era.”

“It's really something,” he said. “I like to see the familiar faces when they get excited. It's really good and for me to still be here, thank God.”